by Benard Makaa | Dec 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
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by Benard Makaa | Dec 18, 2016 | Books
Some of the best books I read in the year 2016 include the following. For reviews, you can follow the links. Influence – by Robert Cialdini Classic book on the psychology of persuasion. He explains the psychology of why people say “yes”—and how to...
by Benard Makaa | Dec 11, 2016 | Books, Psychology
Caution: The phrase “Self Help” has become a cliché. Its use here is not intended to mean these “feel-good-about-your-self” ideology so prevalent in today’s motivational texts. Rather it implies those actions you can take on your own without being taught and explained...
by Benard Makaa | Oct 31, 2016 | Psychology
As part of being victims of the Sunken costs fallacy, we find it a tough call to change our careers. You studied say, Electrical Engineering and thus you think you must practice electrical engineering forever even you do not enjoy it. We only live once, yet we spend...
by Benard Makaa | Sep 1, 2016 | Psychology
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 19, 2016 | Psychology
If you overestimate how much people understand you. You are cursed. It’s that simple.Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. This is more prevalent in the teaching profession where teachers and lecturers rush through the...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 19, 2016 | Psychology
Have you ever started watching a movie, and then one hour into it you realize how terrible it is? But you decide to continue watching because you have already invested one hour into it? Or you continue watching that series even though it is a bore? Severally, I have...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 17, 2016 | Health
Who has never been embarrassed by flatulence? Well this phenomena used to afflict me years ago especially in my childhood and teenage. So when I got the opportunity to investigate it, I jumped straight on and for a couple of years now it has never been an issue for...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 7, 2016 | Stories
Why do people have such a need for drama in their life? Kurt Vonnegut, the novelist has some explanations. The story of Cinderella .It starts with her awful life with evil stepsisters, scrubbing the fireplace. Then she gets an invitation to the ball! Things look up....
